The Eight Amendment
Title: The Unusual Eight
Original Text: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
What it means: The eighth amendment allows bail, protects from unfairly high bail, and bans cruel and unusual punishment. Bail is an amount of money set by the judge that you give in order to be let free during trial. If the suspect fails to show up at their trial, the bail money will be kept. The amendment also prevents judges from setting an unfairly high bail. Judges are allowed to refuse to set a bail if the suspect is deemed too dangerous to be left free. The final part of the eight amendment prevented cruel and unusual punishment that used too be carried out on criminals. Based on the eight amendment, the way the death penalty was done was changed.